"Shellshock" bash bug

[Nils Kassube]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2014-09-27 13:32 GMT+02:00 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
> > Colin Law wrote:
> > > On 27 September 2014 11:05, Graham Watkins
> > > <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com>> 
> > wrote:
> > > > The result I get is:
> > > > 
> > > > "$: command not found"
> > > 
> > > You were not supposed to copy the $, just from env
> > 
> > That's why I leave away the prompt before the commands. A newcomer
> > to
> > the command line can't know that it is not part of the command.
> > 
> > > In the terminal you normally see $ at the point where you type the
> > > command.
> > 
> > Hmm, that may be the default for Unix machines and it may have been
> > the same for early Linux machines. However a Kubuntu 14.04 terminal
> > has this prompt:
> > 
> > kubuntu at kubuntu:~$
> > 
> > and for Xubuntu it is similar:
> > 
> > xubuntu at xubuntu:~$
> > 
> > Therefore I suppose it would be "ubuntu at ubuntu:~$" for a Ubuntu
> > system and not simply "$".
> 
> I think he rather meant that you are supposed to write your commands
> after the ”$”. The fact that there is something before the ”$”
> doesn't matter, since it's different for every distribution, I guess.

Right, that would make sense.


Nils